Disability and the good human life / edited by Jerome E. Bickenbach, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, Franziska Felder, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Barbara Schmitz, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bickenbach, Jerome Edmund, editor.

Series:

Cambridge disability law and policy series.

Cambridge disability law and policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology of disability.

People with disabilities--Social conditions.

People with disabilities.

Quality of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Disability & the Good Human Life

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: what is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not been interested in the topic of disability, and when they are it is usually only in relation to questions such as euthanasia, abortion, or the moral status of disabled people. Consequently disability has been either ignored by moral and political philosophers or simply equated with a bad human life, a life not worth living. This collection takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Moral Worth and Severe Intellectual Disability

A Hybrid View / Simo Vehmas

2. "Something Else"?

Cognitive Disability and the Human Form of Life / Barbara Schmitz

3. Disability (Not) as a Harmful Condition: The Received View Challenged / Thomas Schramme

4. Nasty, Brutish and Short? On the Predicament of Disability and Embodiment / Tom Shakespeare

5. Recognizing Disability / Halvor Hanisch

6. Understanding the Relationship between Disability and Well-Being / Adrienne Asch

7. Disability and the Well-Being Agenda / Jerome E. Bickenbach

8. Disability and Quality of Life: An Aristotelian Discussion / Hans S. Reinders

9. Living a Good Life ... in Adult-Size Diapers / Anna Stubblefield

10. Ill, but Well: A Phenomenology of Well-Being in Chronic Illness / Havi Carel

11. Natural Diversity and Justice for People with Disabilities / Christopher A. Riddle

12. Inclusion and the Good Human Life / Franziska Felder.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89216-9

1-107-70270-4

1-107-54583-8

1-107-70369-7

1-139-22563-4

1-107-68946-5

1-107-59813-3

1-107-66670-8

OCLC:

865330777